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Bookweird [Paperback]

Paul Glennon

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Aug 19 2008
Norman Jespers-Vilnius is just an average eleven-year-old kid–until he absentmindedly nibbles on the edge of a page and wakes up inside his favourite book, the Undergrowth Series. Norman finds himself smack in the middle of an epic battle of animal kingdoms, where he forms a close friendship with young Malcolm, a future king. After joining Malcolm’s fight he winds up back in his own bed, dirty and in torn pyjamas. But his adventures have only just started. It soon becomes clear that Norman has been caught by a mystifying force called “Bookweird”– Norman finds himself inside books his family is reading, mixing up plotlines. When he tries to undo an act of violence in his sister’s horse novel, he has to explain the appearance of a pony to some disgruntled policemen at a crime scene in his mother’s favourite thriller. Can Norman put all of the stories back on track and return these fictional worlds to normal? Or will Bookweird trap him in the pages forever?

Award-winning author Paul Glennon has created a breathtaking, fast-paced story for adventurers of all ages.

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday Canada (Aug 19 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385665474
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385665476
  • Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 1.9 x 22.2 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 386 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #74,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Quill & Quire

Ottawa author Paul Glennon takes the metafictional mode of his GG-nominated 2005 novel The Dodecahedron and adapts it for young readers in Bookweird. Eleven-year-old Norman Jespers-Vilnius somehow upsets “the weird” by inadvertently eating a page from a fantasy novel he is reading. (What, exactly, “the weird” is is never fully explained.) This not only creates a disruption in the narrative continuum, but injects him into the actual plotline of the book. Norman becomes Norman Strong Arm and must fight alongside sword-wielding stoats and other anthropomorphic critters against an evil empire of wolves – all while still wearing his pyjamas. In addition to all of this, Norman has to go inside his sister’s pony book, his mother’s crime thriller, and his father’s copy of The Battle of Maldon to fix further disturbances that have erupted. It’s never made clear exactly what it is going on, despite the presence of a foxy librarian who occasionally appears to help Norman out and explain things, but there is plenty of action and suspense to go along with all of the create-your-own adventure (or Calvino-for-kids) cleverness. The writing is sophisticated and makes use of an advanced vocabulary, but the snippy family politics, Glennon’s understanding of and obvious affection for the fantasy genre, and his ability to fully inhabit Norman’s adolescent mind (eating a page of text while running away from Vikings is likened to “trying to eat the world’s nastiest-tasting gobstopper in less than a minute”) will resonate with the target audience. The only troubling point is the depiction of Norman’s parents. Both come across as jerks, with his father being particularly insufferable. One wonders at times why Norman is trying so hard to get back home. Things feel a bit rushed at the end, but overall Bookweird gives fantasy fiction a fun, speculative twist, and provides a fresh look at what it means to be lost in a good book.

About the Author

Paul Glennon is the author of The Dodecahedron, or a Frame for Frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and was selected as one of The Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of the Year. He lives in Ottawa, where he works in the software industry.

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